Would you rather have Fire or Ice powers?

Poll: Would you rather have Fire or Ice powers? (216 votes)

Fire 31%

Ice 69%

Pyro or Cyro.

If you could have control over one of these, which would you choose?

Leave some reasoning as well :3

Personally I would like to be an Ice user. I would be able to tank some heavy damage with ice shields, I can slow people down (to be fair people would probably slow if they were lit up like a candle), and I can take out people without actually hurting them.

I have a bad feeling that this has been done but I can't find it, i'm hoping not.

Iceman and Captain Cold have pretty sweet versatility with their powers. You can make ice constructs (weapons, armor, barriers), ice physiology, freezing effects/heat-steal on targets. Their are a lot of applications.

Fire is pretty destructive. Applications are mostly centered around burning things. Flight is probably the greatest advantage, but not impressive enough to convince me it's better than ice.

I would say it depends. What are the extents of their powers? Do i have to choose between Iceman and Pyro or Fire and Ice (DC Characters, sorry i cant seem to remember how to link a name to a characters page)

California doesn't need much heat lol, the very lowest it actually gets in the winter is 35+ degrees Fahrenheit in the morning (it warms up a lot after 8 am). Also, I can build with ice, whereas the purpose of fire is mostly to destroy.

Fire for me. Ice can be used more defensively, but fire has more style and is just as versatile. You could create flaming constructs, walls of fire, fire weapons, superheat metals, send out bursts of heat to melt the rubber of people's shoes so they get stuck to the ground or slip, blind people with a big flash, deafen people with a huge explosion, make the ground beneath someone burst to send them flying, make cars explode on a whim, or just plain incinerate enemies with huge flaming blasts.

Visually fire is more stunning and intimidating. Sure, you can make a huge ice construct, but creating massive torrents of flame that rise up into the air and bend down into the shape of a dragon's head is far more terrifying. Especially with waves of intense heat and light coming off them that is so intense the person has to look away for fear of being burnt from several feet away.

At the really high levels sure, you have Iceman who can pass his consciousness and reform anywhere there's water. But a fire user who can similarly transform his body into fire should be able to reform himself anywhere there's a gas that can combust to create fire, or from sufficient heat sources like stars. Iceman can end the world with an ice age? That's nice, but a sufficiently powerful fire manipulator can hijack the Sun and hold it for ransom, either making it go supernova or extinguishing it completely to create a black hole. Go even higher than that and you have a character who can create and extinguish stars on a whim and use them as a form of attack. You want to planet bust without bringing stars into it? No problem because you can literally rip a planet in half by manipulating it's core and causing a gigantic, all consuming eruption.

Go even further than that and you become a being capable of creating your own Big Bang by generating the theoretical "Absolute Heat" temperature in the palm of your hand and letting it explode outward, or wiping out all life in the universe by simulating the "Heat Death" theory of how the universe will come to an end.

People who think ice is more versatile or more powerful at the high end manipulation levels just aren't thinking big enough.

Fire. Something just sounds extremely satisfying about being able to just burn something to the ground. Plus, if it's Johnny Storm level of ability, then you actually have feasible high altitude, high velocity flight (fire would keep you warm and destroy crap in the air that you might have to fly through).

Also, as someone above mentioned, I'd never again be freaking out trying to find a lighter.

Fire for me. Ice can be used more defensively, but fire has more style and is just as versatile. You could create flaming constructs, walls of fire, fire weapons, superheat metals, send out bursts of heat to melt the rubber of people's shoes so they get stuck to the ground or slip, blind people with a big flash, deafen people with a huge explosion, make the ground beneath someone burst to send them flying, make cars explode on a whim, or just plain incinerate enemies with huge flaming blasts.

Visually fire is more stunning and intimidating. Sure, you can make a huge ice construct, but creating massive torrents of flame that rise up into the air and bend down into the shape of a dragon's head is far more terrifying. Especially with waves of intense heat and light coming off them that is so intense the person has to look away for fear of being burnt from several feet away.

At the really high levels sure, you have Iceman who can pass his consciousness and reform anywhere there's water. But a fire user who can similarly transform his body into fire should be able to reform himself anywhere there's a gas that can combust to create fire, or from sufficient heat sources like stars. Iceman can end the world with an ice age? That's nice, but a sufficiently powerful fire manipulator can hijack the Sun and hold it for ransom, either making it go supernova or extinguishing it completely to create a black hole. Go even higher than that and you have a character who can create and extinguish stars on a whim and use them as a form of attack. You want to planet bust without bringing stars into it? No problem because you can literally rip a planet in half by manipulating it's core and causing a gigantic, all consuming eruption.

Go even further than that and you become a being capable of creating your own Big Bang by generating the theoretical "Absolute Heat" temperature in the palm of your hand and letting it explode outward, or wiping out all life in the universe by simulating the "Heat Death" theory of how the universe will come to an end.

People who think ice is more versatile or more powerful at the high end manipulation levels just aren't thinking big enough.

Your argument can be exactly the same for ice aswell.

An all powerful Ice user could literally just stop everything. You created a black hole? thats nice, its no longer sucking anything in because its atoms are all still. You can create stars, cool, except the star is frozen. You want to destroy a planet without giant ice balls? No problem, just freeze everything then smash it with a single hammer.

The thing about fire being more intimidating is completely subjective, tbh I think watching the entire space infront of my freeze completely and come towards me would be more terrifying.

As I said above your post, I'm just pointing out extremely high end fire based abilities that could conceivably be created using fire related powers. As you said, Iceman isn't just the ability to make things cold anymore, but a lot of people use him as a measuring stick for what an "Ice user", as vague as that is, can do. Unless the OP meant ice in that you can only manipulate frozen water and not do temperature manipulation to freeze things? Which I doubt, since the lowering of temperature is tied to the idea of ice powers.

With the power to control fire and heat you can take it just as high as an ice user. Like you said, there aren't many, if any, comic characters that are at Iceman's level of control who use strictly fire and heat, but that doesn't mean "Fire control" can't get to the same extreme.